Let me state it plainly: the desire for balance and the desperate need of journalists to appear neutral will be the death of us. In August, the New York Times reported on a speech given by President Trump in response to the murder of 22 people by a man who believed he needed to halt the ‘Hispanic invasion of Texas’. Its headline: ‘Trump urges unity versus racism’.

This from a man who had announced his candidacy for president by referring to Hispanic asylum seekers as murderers and rapists, and whose re-election campaign has placed more than 2000 adverts on Facebook referring to an invasion of immigrants at the border. Journalistic neutrality appears to have no memory. Let us not pretend either that this is only an American problem.